Peter Voulkos (1924–2002) studied traditional pottery, but as this show focusing on his early years reveals, he quickly tossed the rulebook aside. By the mid-1950s, his accomplished though polite stoneware jars had morphed into large-scale sculptures...

Glenn Adamson has been named the next director of New York's Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). He is currently head of the research department at London's Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum. He started out his museum career at MAD with his first...

Books on theory are rarely urgent reading foranyone but other theorists. The exception iswhen the ﬁeld they cover happens to be in crisis.Then they are voraciously consumed in a search fora solution to whatever ails the ﬁeld. For that reason, two...